Latest high school student to be admitted to all 8 Ivies...
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and Stanford.
Congrats to this young lady, Ifeoma White-Thorpe! And isn't this like one of several Nigerian-American students who've achieved similar distinctions in recent years? I swear, there must be something in the water in Nigeria!  (kidding--my spouse is from a different African country).
She is interviewed here--she seems like a great kid. http://abc7ny.com/1834018/ |
Anonymous
| Called affirmative action which is obviously not supposed to be used for educated imigrants |
Anonymous
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Obviously another sign of reverse discremination.
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Anonymous
| Why not? |
Anonymous
Yes because otherwise it is unfathomable that a black kid got into such great schools right? Oh no, wait it's not that at all... |
Anonymous
| Has anyone noticed that African Americans (decendents of slaves) are being over looked for Africans and hispanics? Perhaps just my perception. However, AA deserve the attention in the academic world and job market as well as other areas. They were here early on, discriminated against - yet still helped build and defend our country. |
Anonymous
| This happens far to often to be merit based. Universities and employers value the work ethic of the immigrants from Africa and their kids over AA. Obvious. Not justifying. |
Anonymous
| god you are all horrible people |
Anonymous
That is a known fact, PP. It has everything to do with education and socio-economic status. The Africans accepted into good universities don't usually come from generational poverty and a defeated mindset. There have been excellent studies done on the relation between resilience, cognitive skills and the stress of generational poverty and insecurity in the US. As you can easily imagine, they are closely linked, because at some point, people get beaten down by constantly having to struggle. |
Anonymous
| PP then who really deserves a helping hand? Otherwise race blind. |
Anonymous
Well, the admit rate for each of them is around 10%, so if this kid was white or Asian I can guarantee that they wouldn't have gotten into all of them. |
Anonymous
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"At this point none of the schools I've applied to said they give merit scholarships..."
Should have done more research. None of those schools give merit aid. |
Anonymous
| Obama should have known and addressed this. Oh well i guess he did not fix the race issues as expected. What do you expect from a man who had ancesters who owned slaves. |
Anonymous
My personal opinion is to do away with affirmative action, and instead of working through our education system, develop targeted and conditional job offers to communities with poverty and crime issues. Affirmative action tries to right a wrong with another wrong but is unfair to other students in the process. Populations selected through affirmative action then have the legitimacy of their achievements disputed. It's not working. |
Anonymous
I googled her; there were two NMSF and 5 commended scholars at her school. She was not one of them. |